1. Moral Development How do we become moral people?

2.  Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg modified and expanded upon Piaget's work to form a theory that explained the development of moral reasoning.  Piaget described a two-stage process of moral development, while Kohlberg theory of moral development outlined six stages within three different levels.  Kohlberg extended Piaget’s theory, proposing that moral development is a continual process that occurs throughout the lifespan.

3. The Heinz Dilemma  In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done that? (Kohlberg, 1963)."

4.  What do you think Heinz should do?

5.  Use the graphic organizer on your handout and with a partner answer how you think a person in each of the three categories might respond to this moral dilemma.

6. The Trolley Dilemma

7. The Trolley Dilemma- Part 2

8. What would you do?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9cOf QAzM98&feature=related (Tyra food) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9cOf QAzM98&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9cOf QAzM98&feature=related  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kV_ b3IK9M (bike stealing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kV_ b3IK9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kV_ b3IK9M  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSFN_ wPKuhM&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSFN_ wPKuhM&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSFN_ wPKuhM&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZHJ G1tt-U&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZHJ G1tt-U&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZHJ G1tt-U&list=PL43553ABDB09C5C4E

9.  Design your own morality experiment.